All the members are good people, only the host is a pervert

In Fengwu State, women with a scholar degree or higher could marry three principal concubines, with an unlimited number of concubines. This was done to prevent a large number of men from entering the fertility clinic due to a lack of women seeking them. Secondly, the distinction between principal concubines and concubines was not significant; ultimately, it was the women who became pregnant; the men merely provided a seed.

The only restriction on women is that once they decide to get pregnant and have a child, they cannot abandon the child, regardless of whether it is a daughter or a son. The crime of abandonment is a serious crime in Fengwu State.

The reason Chi Wenning was tortured by the county magistrate's wife was simply because his young father wasn't a true concubine. County Magistrate Chi didn't have any true concubines. Besides the main concubine, he only had concubines.

Lin Ruan smiled and said, "What? Passing the imperial examination wasn't enough, you even got a job as a matchmaker? Congratulations!"

Angry, Lu Zhao nudged Lin Ruan with his arm, then put away his smile and sighed, "I won't hide it anymore. He's still my Erlang. The families my mother liked found out he'd broken off an engagement, so they all made excuses and refused to get engaged to him. You and I have known each other for many years, and we know each other well. I mentioned you to my mother a long time ago, but she said we had to wait until you passed the imperial examination. Today, she's attracted to you, so she asked me to come here and test your opinion."

Lin Ruan drank some wine, leaned against the carriage, and said with a smile: "Since he is your brother, I naturally trust his character. However, I can't make a rash decision on my own about marrying a maid. I need to go home and discuss it with my father. I just happened to get a good book that tells strange stories. I will ask Lin Chun to send it to you tomorrow. You can tell whether it works or not by looking at the note inside the book."

Lu Zhao patted Lin Ruan's shoulder vigorously and said, "My dear sister, I believe you. Now I'm getting off the car. You should go home quickly. I'll wait for your news at the mansion tomorrow."

The next morning, Lu Zhao received a book from Lin Chun. It was Luo Huan's newly published Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Inside, a note read: "My father has agreed. I will ask a matchmaker to come to the mansion to propose marriage on an auspicious day."

Lu Zhao was very excited after seeing the note, and immediately told the good news to Lu Liang and Mrs. Lu. Upon hearing this, Mrs. Lu began to prepare Lu Er's dowry. He was now eighteen years old, and the interval between engagement and marriage could not be too long, so she hurriedly urged Lu Er to embroider the dowry.

Lu Er said indifferently: "He is just a second servant, why would he embroider a wedding dress? He can just make a few feet of red satin to make a dress."

Lu Zhao always doted on her younger brother and coaxed him, "Erlang, would I harm you? If Ruan Jie'er was a bad girl, mother and I would rather marry you off with one of the retainers in the mansion. How could we give her to you?"

"But elder sister," Lu Er whispered, "I feel bad. What if she suddenly turns her back on me after marrying me and breaks off the engagement, or if she thinks I'm too old, or if those eyes look restless and she treats me badly?"

Lu Zhao breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, comforting her: "Don't worry, you are my brother, born with me. I won't harm you, okay?"

"I understand her. She's not that kind of person." Lu Zhao gently stroked Lu Er's hair. "If you're really uneasy, you'll slowly understand after you get married. If the situation you described really happens, come find me and I'll help you vent your anger."

After hearing this, Lu Er felt a little better and nodded.

A few days later, the Lin family sent a matchmaker to propose marriage. After discussion, the two families set the wedding date at the beginning of the next year, so that Lu Er could spend another New Year at home.

As time passed quietly, the chill of winter was gradually replaced by the warm sunshine of the New Year. In the festive and peaceful atmosphere, Lu Wenze married Lin Ruan and became her second husband.

Lu Wenze was a name Lin Ruan had come up with when the Lu family went to the Lin residence to inquire about the name. In Fengwu Country, whether marrying a maid or a concubine, a man had to go through three rituals: the first was "sending characters," where the man's birth date and time were written on red paper and someone brought it over; the second was "asking for the name," where the woman wrote her calculated name on red paper and someone brought it over; and the third was "delivering gifts," where the man delivered the dowry to the woman's family.

After getting a real name, Lu Wen Ze chewed it over and over again, Lu Wen Ze, Wen Ze, this name is really nice.

He had secretly thought of a name for himself, but after searching through the Four Books on Men's Marriage, he couldn't find a name that matched this one. On their wedding night, Lü Er sat nervously on the edge of his bed, awaiting Lin Ruan's arrival. The door opened, and Lin Ruan slowly entered the room. In the candlelight, her face was beautiful and gentle. Lü Er couldn't help but stare at her, his uneasiness gradually dissipating.

On the second day, Lu Wenze offered tea to Lin's father and accepted tea from Aqiao, and only then did he officially become Lin Ruan's husband.

For a man, getting married is a life-changing change. For a woman, marrying several people does not have much impact on her life. It is just one more person to support. She has also become a juren, and making money to build a family business is put on the agenda again.

In addition to copying Pu Songling's "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" into a gender-reversed version under the pen name Luo Huan, Lin Ruan also used the system to combine the knowledge she had learned over the years and various topics that appeared in the history of Fengwu Kingdom into several books in the form of "One Point of Understanding" and "Five Years of College Entrance Examination, Three Years of Simulation" in her world. The first half is the textbook and the second half is the questions and answers, some of which are used for the examinations for students and some for the county examinations.

Her imperial examination textbook was easy to understand and could be studied thoroughly even without a teacher. The various cases and example questions in it were all based on the examination papers of Fengwu Kingdom over the years. She used the top cases in those examination papers and the answers to other top-ranked examination papers to write analysis.

It looks like a huge project, but it's not. Linsoft invested a huge amount of money to buy a skin for the system that can be equipped with an external printer.

In her space, there is a printer that Lin Ruan bought in the interstellar era, which looks no different from handwriting. She changed all these things into official script on the system, then typeset them one by one, printed them out on bamboo paper, and compiled them into books.

System: It has completely become a computer (*?????)

Although the storybook was kept hidden, Lin Ruan first asked his mother-in-law, Lu Liang, to review it after he finished it, as it would help him become famous.

After Lu Liang finished reading it hastily over the course of several days, he called Lin Ruan over and exclaimed, "This book is so well written! I saw your name on it? Did you write it? How long has it been written?"

Lin Ruan stroked his hair with a feigned simplicity and said, "I wrote this, and it hasn't been many years. I just reorganized and copied what I use for daily study and practice. As you know, I was a late bloomer. I didn't pass the Tongsheng exam until I was sixteen, and the Xiucai exam until I was nineteen. I've accumulated quite a bit of this stuff over the years."

Lu Liang excitedly stood up and walked around the study a few times before saying with a smile, "This book is excellent, very excellent! Tomorrow I will bring these books to the prefect for his review. You will definitely benefit from it, and both the prefect and I will have an additional "talent cultivation" in our political achievements. Sister Ruan, you are truly a good son-in-law to me."

Lin Ruan said a little embarrassedly, "It's just that I'm the only woman in the family, and I want to earn some money. It's great that my mother-in-law doesn't mind me being so money-conscious."

Lu Liang was very active and took the books to the prefectural governor's office the next day. The prefect was overjoyed when he saw the books. He praised Lin Ruan highly in front of Lu Liang and rewarded Lin Ruan with 5,000 taels of silver and a 500-acre farm in the name of the prefecture.

After receiving the farm's deed and the five thousand taels of silver note, she calculated that she could now earn over four thousand eight hundred taels of silver annually from rent alone, practically becoming a large landowner overnight. However, she was now a top scholar, the son-in-law of Prefect Lu Liang, and the governor's favorite, so no matter how jealous others were, they could do nothing about it.

Lin Ruan first went to a pawnshop to buy four maids, and used the first back room on the west side of the gate as a silver vault. He gave the literate maid the name Lin Ding and asked her to guard the vault, paying her one or two taels of silver per month.

The remaining three were given one to the housekeeper and two to Lin Cheng, who was in charge of the rent, at five hundred coins each per month.

Lin Cheng was promoted to second steward, receiving a monthly stipend of two taels of silver, while the chief steward, Lin Zhongze, received three taels. Lin Ruanze kept one hundred taels of silver for himself each month in the accounting office and allocated fifty taels to the inner courtyard, which was then handed over to Lin's father, thus completely separating the accounts of the inner and outer courtyards. The remaining rent was placed in the treasury, which was guarded by Lin Ding.

She hadn't bought a shop for Lu Wenze. Firstly, Lu Wenze had brought a shop with him as a dowry, and although Lin Ruan had transferred the ownership, he still had to collect the rent. Secondly, she would eventually settle in the capital, and a shop wasn't as stable as a farm, so there was no point in buying so many shops in Weizhou Prefecture.